Six months into a conflict that has reshaped the arteries of global energy, the United States military escorted forty commercial vessels carrying eighteen million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz — a wartime record that speaks less to triumph than to how profoundly the world's most critical oil passage has been contested. Washington struck nearly sixty Iranian military installations in a single day while tankers burned and crew members died, revealing the gap between operational ambition and the irreducible human cost of war over commerce. The strait, which once moved a quarter of t
US military escorts record oil shipment through Hormuz amid escalating Iran strikes
Two Filipino crew members killed when Saudi-flagged tanker attacked and caught fire; Iranian media reported four killed in US strike on wedding venue with 68 wounded.